Artist Statement:

Katherine Maxwell has lived many incarnations of artistic expression. Her catalogue is voluminous and varied. She worked as a freelance fashion stylist throughout Europe, and was a fashion editor for Italian music magazines. She has utilized companies like Diesel and Benetton to outfit rock bands during commercial photo shoots, and Maxwell has worked directly in the showrooms of Versace, Armani, and Dolce and Gabbana. With uncounted magazine covers, spreads, and many celebrity clients, her designs have been collected and featured around the world, including the famous Italian opera “La Scala.” 

Her ability to convey a story of her surroundings brought her recognition and demand. However, she was eventually weakened by the unhealthy side of the fashion industry and no longer able to abide by the dysfunctional culture. She soon turned to the healing arts and her deep and established love of knitting and weaving techniques. 

Now her fiber art is driven by physical surroundings, and her weavings interact with dramatic earthly beauty. You will often find Maxwell with her loom set up on the open road. Her materials include a myriad of recycled fibers and a rich resource of spun buffalo, coyote, and wolf wool -- a sustainable couture where the work takes on the feel of her natural surroundings. You could be seeing the south of France or a stretch of Route 66 in Maxwell’s designs. 

The distinction she creates in her designs has garnered recognition from the pinnacle of the fiber arts world, and she is included in the books “Textiles Now: Celebrating Textiles from Around the World” and the finely detailed coffee table book written by Mary Shoeser and published by Thames and Hudson, “Textiles: the Art of Mankind.”